The Emergency Web
Business Objectives
EMERGENCY is a Leverage Action ESPRIT
funded research project (29512, January 1999 - August 1999) the aim of which is to tailor the
RENAISSANCE
Method to devise a method to assist organisations adapt their IT applications
to make them Euro
compliant.
This section gives the business objectives of the project partners.
The scale of the Euro problem is immense. Across all EU countries (whether
or not they will enter the first wave), all IT systems that deal with financial
information will have, ultimately, to be converted. The results of the
EMERGENCY project will be exploited by the partners
in accodance with their business objectives in different ways.
As an organisation which offers services in
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Projects
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Technical Assistance
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Services and Packages
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Consultancy and Training
the successful completion of the Emergency study will provide Engineering
with the possibility of establishing specialised consultancy services in
this area. Additionally, Engineering hopes to use the Emergency experience
to enable it to experiment with the viability and cost effectiveness of
applying a systematic approach to planning and estimating Euro conversion
projects to preserve and hopefully expand its market position.
SICEAS SERVICES Srl
As an organisation which provides other companies of the
group with high quality services and consultancy in different operational
sectors, including management of information systems, the successful completion
of the Emergency study will enable SICEAS to provide the other companies
of the Group with a reliable solution to plan and estimate their Euro conversion
projects.
Lancaster is a research institute which constantly strives to consolidate
its reputation as an international centre of excellence in software engineering,
education, research and development. Establishing the relevance of software
engineering techniques and methods in a real industrial context is an essential
part of this process so that the successful completion of Emergency is
directly relevant to this aim.
Additionally, Lancaster is attempting to diversify its income from primary
funding sources, such as UK Research Councils, and intends to exploit the
project results through consultancy services from a recently established
spin-off company named Quinag Consultants Ltd.
